No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
JACK LONDONA man with a club is a law-maker.
More Jack London Quotes
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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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